2 years

It has been two years. I miss you Dave.

The Society of Publication Designers, Metro, and some of my images.

The Society of Publication Designers is featuring a story I worked on for Metro Magazine. It's on their blog today, check it out, right above a story about Platon ! I shot half the story and one of Metro's staff shooters shot the other half. Good job Metro and especially CD Bryan Nanista.

http://www.spd.org

Here are a few of my favorites from the shoot:

back and forward

it started by digging through files from the summer to find a photo for charlie.

it turned into a a look back on a beautiful summer.

personal

My family. Went from one with a 800cc ducati to four with a diesel wagon- in  three years.

I just don't dig on swine, that's all. Except for Bacon.

sometimes, you find yourself staring your food source in the eye.

Beautiful, in an "I dig on swine" kind of way.

It was right before lunch. Turned out to be a good day for a beet burger from Bewitched Deli.

spooks and sugar

Halloween 2009. Only a few photos, but without a doubt, my favorite of holidays.

"It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . . ."

new.

Kids keep you busy. Sons, nieces, nephews, friends. I have a new kids portfolio. Shoot what you know, shoot what you love.

the road

the road

took me somewhere better than i was before.

Maggie

Maggie dog was with us from 1993 until 2008. Now my Mom has Zoe. Same breed, different dog.

First Annual 78 Summit

Saturday night, we found ourselves at the First Annual 78 Summit: "A festival of recorded music on 78 RPM Discs."

By Wednesday, we had over 100 78s and a 78 player in our living room.

Thanks Vintage Music Company !

dead again

when i got home, he was just lying there. unsure of what to do, i shot him.

2009 Gardner Hardware Anvil Drop

anvil

drop.

Obama in Minneapolis - 9/12/09

I didn't actually go to the rally, but since it took place less than a mile from my house in downtown Minneapolis, I felt compelled to take a walk down the street to see what folks were up to. I only stayed about 30 minutes, here is a sampling of what I saw.

Zombies for Obama, sweet.

Aside from the obvious problem with her message, she misspelled "speeches." This isn't a political blog, but if you are going to try to make a statement, get your spelling correct.

New Gopher Stadium

The University of Minnesota/ Minnesota Magazine commissioned me to photograph the new Gopher Stadium -- We shot Gopher Players, Band Members, Dave Mona (WCCO Radio Sunday Sport's Huddle CoHost), and of course, the stadium inside and out. It's an incredible facility. Here are three pages from the 9 pages of photos in the fall edition of Minnesota.  Outtakes to come soon. 

view from last weekend

Minnesota- more beautiful than cold, really. 

Billboard Magazine Cover, Paramore "Christmas in July"

I had the pleasure of photographing Paramore for the cover of Billboard's "Christmas in July" issue. Check it out on newsstands this week. 

canada

mayflies ---  so many mayflies -- 

K-12

My cousin-in-law gave me a whole box of old cameras today. The cameras are amazing, but most exciting is the shot roll of K-12 process kodachrome film that was left in an old Kodak Retina. Stay tuned, I'm having it processed -- 

just this dead squirrel

Shot three super cool jobs in the last week -- but unfortunately cannot blog about them until they get published. So for now here's a dead squirrel, mostly for my friend Kelly that hates squirrels. I didn't have anything to do with his death ... he committed suicide in my father-in-law's pool. 

finally

the first leap of the summer ...

the road

"i've got 5 miles to go to nowhere."  

dirty

found this in my garage. i miss polaroids. sometimes digital is just too clean. 

cub scouts

rocket day at cub scouts. 

i know a guy who put rockets on everything. http://www.the-rocketman.com

spooky

I drive by this place often. This is the first time I've photographed it.

As I was leaving, a light turned on. Spooky.